My journey with Shogi started several years ago. I live in Czech Republic - a small country in the middle of Europe. As our country, our conventions tends to be on the smaller scale and most of the time, you can visit all the panels you want and even have some downtime between them. It happened on one anime / japanese…

Hey again, everyone, Raitzeno here with the rest of my Naka-Kon report, such as it is. Normally I stay a lot longer and take a lot more pictures, but my time at the con got cut a bit short this year due to some unforeseen issues.

Spring is upon us! The time for love, for your alleriges to awaken, to chase eggs hidden by a bunny, stop eating meat on Friday and certain holy days and, most importantly… enjoy new anime! And especially the sequels or related works based on our beloved series! Including, but not limited the super heroes that wins…

Another lucky haul from my local secondhand store’s anime shelf, Princess Arete is a relatively obscure anime movie I knew next to nothing about before I claimed the pretty limited edition box as my own. It has a good pedigree as a production of Studio 4°C (Memories, Mind Game, Tekkonkinkreet and Berserk - The Golden…

...Okay, yeah, that reference may be a little dated. Anyway, this is Raitzeno, just home from day 1 of Naka-Kon, an anime convention in Overland Park, Kansas (in the Kansas City metropolitan area, since many of you have probably never heard of it). Today was basically a scouting day for me and my fellow panelist,…

My local secondhand media/electrical goods store has a small anime section with a fairly swift turnover of content. I visit it a couple of times a month, and often there will be something obscure that grabs my eye - like recently a rare Gamecube game (Ikaruga) or a boxset of an anime series I haven’t seen (Michiko and…

From the very beginning, I knew what I was getting into with The Promised Neverland. Try as I did to avoid spoilers, somehow even someone who is not involved in social media like myself had the first episode’s twist spoiled before watching the episode less than a week after it aired. Indeed, the crown on its thumbnail…

One Punch Man revels in its absurdity and surreal use of humor. This is no more apparent then in its titular hero the One Punch Man himself - Saitama. Saitama’s entire power set boggles the mind as it breaks every single genre convention that has been built up over the years. This extends to his super hero training -…

Do you like listening to us on the AniTAY podcast? Perhaps you’ve only read some of our articles. Either way, this may be the event for you. AniTAY is scheduled to host a couple of panels this spring. If you’re planning to attend these conventions or live in the area, feel free to stop by!

I have been in love with anime since I first caught Miyazaki’s Laputa, Castle in the Sky (presumably the old Streamline dub) on UK terrestrial TV in the 1980s. A few years later, my folks moved to the city where I gained access to cable TV and all manner of obscure channels. Some channels showed anime like Gall force…